Just media alone is not enough. You have to have organization.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

Love is not loveWhich alters when alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove:Oh, no, it is an ever-fixèd mark, that looks on tempests and is never shaken.

That happens in life sometimes, doesn't it? Something terrible happens and you think it's the worst thing ever and then it turns out to be the best.

Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.

Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.

Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp.

Exercise caution, as I have advised many people.

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

I respect anyone who achieves something that countless others have dared to try before and failed.

Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft spoken and loud, all at once.

What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty.